In my attempt to reduce our carbon footprint, save electricity and generally help the planet we signed up for the state government (Queensland Australia) ClimateSmart initiative. Its pretty good. For fifty dollars an electrician comes out to your home installs up to 15 energy efficient light bulbs and a water saving shower head. The best part is you get this cool little device that lets you know how much electricity you are using at any one time. The end result is you can see which devices are the big energy guzzlers (like the kettle!)
The electrician is also supposed to compile and send out a plan for you to help you use in the future looking at your current habits. As we rent, I found this to be a little pointless as "install solar panels" is not really under our control, nor was any of the other suggestions. I wonder if anyone else found the plan a bit of a waste of time? Otherwise I highly recommend it!!
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4 days ago
yeah the energy monitor is great. we have our power bill down to $120 a quarter so now we've switched to 100% green power.
ReplyDeletewe also rent but we found the plan useful to show our landlord the benefits of installing different items.
did you log in to the site? we also found that useful as it had the full results from our audit and links to other websites I found really handy. anyway keep up the good work!
Thanks Ferry, I had never logged onto the site before. It said our household goal is 13kw per day. I think (although I have to estimate on the bill) our current daily average is just under 40 kw. Yikes! Looks like we still have a ways to go!!
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